Activities · Emoji 11.0
🧧Red Envelope Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a 🧧 emoji, they’re wishing you good luck and prosperity, often related to money or celebrations. It’s a friendly gesture showing they're thinking of you.
The 🧧 emoji represents a Chinese red envelope, also known as a hongbao.
- Unicode
- U+1F9E7
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :red_
envelope: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧧 Red Envelope emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as good luck emoji, envelope emoji.
02 — Platforms
Red Envelope emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the red envelope as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Red Envelope emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :red_envelope:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the red envelope, code point U+1F9E7.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧧 Red Envelope emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Red Envelope emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the red envelope as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Red Envelope emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around red envelope for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🧧 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🧧 means in other countries
Represents hongbao, the cash-gift envelope central to Lunar New Year — with real etiquette around amounts and timing.
Given at Lunar New Year and weddings; amounts avoid the number four and favor lucky even numbers.
Used year-round as a casual way to send money, tips, or bonuses, not just at holidays.
Often unrecognized as a specific monetary gesture, read as a generic envelope or letter.
Before you send it: Great for Lunar New Year messages within the culture; explain it if the recipient isn’t familiar with the tradition.
09 — Apps
What 🧧 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9E7, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🧧 vs 😫 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Red Envelope
Code: U+1F9E7 · added 2018
Shortcode: :red_envelope:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🧧 emoji, they’re wishing you good luck and prosperity, often related to money or celebrations.
Unicode name: Tired Face
Code: U+1F62B · added 2010
Shortcode: :tired_face:
Generally, 😫 means you're feeling really tired or overwhelmed.
12 — History
Where the 🧧 Red Envelope emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the red envelope to 2018.
Same character every time — U+1F9E7 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Red Envelope was approved as U+1F9E7 and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🧧 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ